Re:I hope Apple never adopts RCS
by agluszak on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:11AM
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Now, the question is: is that a good thing? SMS is like e-mail - you can have many clients for the same protocol. Don't like your built-in SMS app? Install another one. You can't do that with 3rd-party proprietary siloed communication platforms.
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Re:I hope Apple never adopts RCS
by delta_p_delta_x on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:17AM
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> You can't do that with 3rd-party proprietary siloed communication platforms
I agree, and this is unfortunate. However, they're not going away at all, and the free alternatives (IRC?) are relegated to niche developer groups. For work communications, we have Slack, Discord, Teams, Zoom; for normal messaging, the apps I mentioned above (and more; Instagram/TikTok/etc have their own DM platforms).
It will take real concerted effort to fix this, and somehow I don't see it happening.